Zest: a programming language for malleable and legible systems

Post by ModernMech » Wed, Mar 19, 2025, 6:32 PM UTC

corysama wrote: post #9

ModernMech wrote: post #2

Other programming languages this author has worked on: Droplet: "Datalog in time and space" - https://github.com/jamii/droplet Eve: "Datalog meets Smalltalk" - https://witheve.com Imp: "An Eve for people who build Eves" - https://github.com/jamii/imp These are some pretty "out there" languages with a high strangeness budget, so I'd expect the same of Zest. I like the idea of exploring the interaction models that Eve…

Oh crap. This is from the Eve folks? That was one of those projects where everyone got excited about how new and powerful it was. Then continued programming in PHP out of inertia.

Post by LoganDark » Wed, Mar 19, 2025, 9:38 PM UTC

returningfory2 wrote: post #8

Ohkay wrote: post #3

The docs have test cases embedded in the markdown. This is a pretty cool use of markdown. I have started doing something similar with markdown in my project. I wonder if other programming languages have done this too.

Rust has this, and it just makes so much sense. Especially when you write a library in which the basic demo is also the basic unit test you want to make. Instead of writing a specific unit test that's hidden in source code, you just embed it in the docs and then you (a) don't have code duplication and (b) have verification your documentation's code samples are actually correct.

Post by Calamitous » Thu, Mar 20, 2025, 5:26 AM UTC

Ohkay wrote: post #3

The docs have test cases embedded in the markdown. This is a pretty cool use of markdown. I have started doing something similar with markdown in my project. I wonder if other programming languages have done this too.